The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-08-13
Maryland Affairs.

The deaths in Baltimore last week were
800 and the births 32l.
On Tuesday last Wm Monk, of Baltimore,
celebrated his ODD birthday.
Joseph Radclif died at Liberty, Frederick
county, on Wednesday, aged IS years.
The city tax rate in Annapolis this year is
so cents on the 500, the same as last.
The Police Department of Baltimore are
taking a census of the qualified voters OF that
city.
John and William Rosenberg, charged with
burglary, escaped from the Hagerstown Jail on
Tuesday night.
Col. R. H. Miles, of St. Mary county, died
at the Gettysburg Springs Hotel last Sunday,
in his Goth year.
Thomas Claggett, said to be the wealthiest
citizen of Frederick county, died in Frederick
last Sunday afternoon, in his 18th year.
On July 90 Willie, son of Henry NJ. Burns,
of Chewsville, died from telescope OF the
bowels, caused by jumping from fence.
A captain and lieutenant in the Salvation
Army are in Jail at Cumberland, having re-
fused to pay fine for discrderly conduct.
United States Veterinary Surgeon Patterson
has examined some herds in Montgomery
county and found no signs of pleuro pneumo-
MIA.
Gov. Lloyd and staff will go to Georgia in
October with President Cleveland, joining
Gov. Lee and his staff en- route at Richmond,
Va.
Charles Denmead, of Woodbury., Baltimore
county, aged 10 years, was drowned at Tol.
chester Beach last Saturday A boat he and
several companions were IN, sank.
The old management will control the Fred
erick County Agricultural Society this year,
and the differences among members will be
postponed until the annual election in Jan
uary.
Charles Cecil an empIoye of John G. Best
near the Frederick Junction, was gored by q
bull on Wednesday morning and severely IN
iured. The flesh about his thigh was badly
torn.
Mary Green, colored, of Anne Arundel
county, is under arrest for inhuman treatment
of her child. She tied it up by the wrists and
whipped it until the rope cut through the
flesh. She then put salt in the child's wounds
made by the whipping.
/ The preparation for hanging joint. Ross,
the colored bunker, under sentence of death,
and whose date of execution is fixed for Fri
day, August &c, began on Thursday. Ross
still keeps up cheerful demeanor, and seems
not to realize that he will be hung so soon.
| The militia of Maryland has been invited
to participate in the international encamp-
ment at Chicago, Illinois, from October l to
| 20, and the adjutant- general is asked to allow
troops of other States and Territories to pass
through Maryland in going and returning
from the cncampment.
Horace Abbott died near Waverly, Balti
more county, on Monday, aged 81 years. He
u Il tal
life as blacksmith. BY skill, industry and
thrift he progressed and became the founder
and manager of the Abbott iron Works, one
of the large iron industries of the country.
| Clarence Hutchins Steele, son of the late
James B. Steele, aged 81 years, died at tie
residence of his mother, in Cambridge, at an
early hour Tuesday morning. The deceased
was several years ago engaged in the drug
business at Frederick. and was engaged in
the same business at Cambridge at the time
| of his death.
A singular accident occurred last week at
Chincoteague Island. Mr.. Robert Benson,
while smoking cigar, swallowed some of the
smoke, which brought on a violent fit of
coughing, causing a rupture of one of the
blood vessels of his lungs, causing death III a
! few minutes. He left wife and four small
children in destitute circumstances.
The wheat yield in Worcester county is less
than usual, though some returns are very
large. For instance John L. Robins, from Sc
bushels seeded, realized 1900 bushels.
Another gentleman, owning four farms, will
not get over S75 above expenses from the
small grain on all of them. The corn crop
is good.
William Hopkins, workman in Charles
Perot's brickyard, Baltimore, covered him.
self with a sheet last Sunday evening, and
paraded around the yard as ghost to brighten
| the other workmen. William E. Goodwin
did not frighten much and shot the ghost, the
ball passing through the ghosts mouth, in
Aicting painful wound.
The Republicans of Howard county on
Tuesday nominated the following ticket
Senate, George W. King; House of Delegates,
| e. f. Frizzell and F. A. Pedicord; sheriff.
George D. Day; register of wills, j. R. Mus
ser; county commissioners, Lewis Barlow, r.